“What happened to me is not about me; This is about something much bigger. This is about how we as a community stand together and resist the injustice that’s happening. Hard-working people, and members of our family and our community, are being treated like criminals. We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice. And we all have to stand on the right side of justice.” SEIU United Service Workers West President David Huerta

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On June 14, President Donald Trump is planning to spend $45 million in taxpayers’ money for a celebration of his birthday. In response, on that day people all over the country will celebrate NO KINGS DAY, a day of action described by its organizers as “a nationwide day of defiance.”

More than 1,500 marches, rallies, and protests took place From May 1st through May 3rd in more than 1000 cities and towns in all 50 states. 

In mid-March 2025, the radical Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) convened a national meeting of trade unionists, with some community groups representing key issues such as immigrant and racial justice.

LNS’s Young Worker Project is excited to announce its Young Worker Training Program, a six-week course aimed at young workers of all industries invested in using their labor power to advance climate and environmental justice!

On May 7th, LNS partners at the Public School Strong campaign hosted a virtual training on Healthy School Finance.

LNS President Joe Uehlein recently spoke on a panel on Labor and the Environment at the Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Ten national unions and scores of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding “an End to the Assault on the Right to Organize and Protest.”

Unions and their allies are organizing at state and local levels to end the assault on the right to organize and protest.

LNS co-director Joshua Dedmond was recently elected to the Board of LNS’ allied organization Climate Justice Alliance.

The destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level ever recorded in 2024, driven by a surge in fires caused by global heating. From the Brazilian Amazon to the Siberian taiga, Earth’s forests disappeared at a record rate last year.

or three weeks Panama has been on an “indefinite national strike” called by unions of teachers, university students, workers, environmentalists, and peasant and indigenous communities.

Nicole Cantello is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lawyer,  President of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Union Local 704, and leader of AFGE Council 238- a nationwide union that represents over 8,000 EPA employees…